The artless Jew : medieval and modern affirmations and denials of the visual /

Conventional wisdom holds that Judaism is indifferent or even suspiciously hostile to the visual arts due to the Second Commandment's prohibition on creating "graven images," the dictates of monotheism, and historical happenstance. This intellectual history of medieval and modern Jewi...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Bland, Kalman P., 1942-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2000.
Subjects:	Ten commandments > Images. Judaism and art > History of doctrines. Jewish art. Jewish aesthetics. Jews > Intellectual life.
Online Access:	Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:	1400811074 9781400811076 9781400823574 1400823579 1282767003 9781282767003 069108985X 9780691089850
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central